Journey into the Whirlwind
by Ginzburg, Eugenia SemyonovnaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-11-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Miff
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Summary
Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Table of Contents
| A telephone call at dawn | p. 3 |
| The red-haired professor | p. 5 |
| Prelude | p. 9 |
| The snowball | p. 13 |
| There's no one so silly as a clever man | p. 20 |
| My last year | p. 24 |
| Life counted in minutes | p. 30 |
| The year 1937 begins | p. 35 |
| Expelled from the Party | p. 39 |
| That day | p. 41 |
| Captain Vevers | p. 48 |
| The cellars at "Black Lake" | p. 52 |
| The investigators have conclusive evidence | p. 60 |
| Stick and carrot | p. 64 |
| The walls come to life | p. 70 |
| "Can you forgive me?" | p. 76 |
| The "conveyor belt" | p. 83 |
| Confrontations | p. 88 |
| Parting | p. 98 |
| New encounters | p. 100 |
| Orphans twice over | p. 114 |
| Tukhachevsky and others | p. 120 |
| To Moscow | p. 128 |
| Transfer | p. 132 |
| Introduction to Butyrki | p. 141 |
| The whole of the Comintern | p. 151 |
| Butyrki nights | p. 157 |
| In accordance with the law of December 1st | p. 162 |
| "A fair and speedy trial" | p. 169 |
| Penal servitude--what bliss! | p. 175 |
| The Pugachev Tower | p. 180 |
| The Stolypin coach | p. 188 |
| Five steps by three | p. 193 |
| Major Weinstock's twenty-two commandments | p. 200 |
| Bright nights and dark days | p. 203 |
| Captain Glan's dog | p. 209 |
| The underground punishment cell | p. 215 |
| Comunista Italiana | p. 221 |
| "Next year in Jerusalem" | p. 226 |
| Day after day, month after month | p. 231 |
| A breath of oxygen | p. 236 |
| A fire in prison | p. 240 |
| Punishment cell for the second time | p. 243 |
| Memories of Giordano Bruno | p. 247 |
| The end of the "monstrous dwarf" | p. 250 |
| Great expectations | p. 257 |
| A bathhouse! Just an ordinary bathhouse! | p. 263 |
| The ruins of Schlusselburg | p. 267 |
| Car Number 7 | p. 273 |
| All sorts to make a world | p. 279 |
| The transit camp | p. 331 |
| The S.S. Dzhurma | p. 351 |
| No luck today, my lady Death! | p. 360 |
| Light work | p. 370 |
| Elgen is the Yakut word for "dead" | p. 395 |
| Free felling | p. 403 |
| Salvation from heaven | p. 409 |
| Epilogue | p. 417 |
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